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' Separable Button.

NPETERS, PHOT0-LITNOGRAPHBL WASNINGION, D. 01

NITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER'P. OOGGESHALL AND AMOS W. O. ARNOLD, OF PROVIDENCE, R. I.

SEPARABLE BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,960, dated February22, 1881. Application filed December 4, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that we, OLIVER P. OOGGES- HALL and Arms W. G. ARNOLD, bothof Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented animprovementin Separable Buttons, of which the following isaspecification.

Our invention consists in a separable button, having within an elongatedhollow fixed post attached to the front portion of the button, twolevers extending longitudinally through the hollow of the post, andprovided at their ends, within the front portion of the button, withspring-actuated pushers, and at the ends extending beyond the outer endof said post,with opposite hooks, serving to catch within a chamberedshoe.

Figure 1 represents an axial longitudinal section of the button, takenthrough the axis of the pushers. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of thepushers and spring attached to the back plate. Fig. 3 represents a planview of the slotted plate, which serves to form the catch and chamber ofthe shoe. Fig. 4 represents a back view of the front portion of thebutton.

In the drawings, A represents the front portion of the button; B, theback plate, provided with a slot, 1), to receive the ends of the leversO O, and serving to support the pushers D I), and the bent spring E,secured to the plate by means of a piece of hollow wire, 6, attached bysolder. The hollow post F is made elongated and attached to the plate B.Themale lever O is provided with a pivot-hole, a, and both levers areprovided with hooks c at their outer ends,\vhicl1 project beyond the endof the fixed post F. TheiemaleleverO curves around the hub of themalelever O, and both levers are properly held for action within thefixed post by means of a rivet passed through the sides of the fixedpost and the hole a, or by punching the side of the fixed post at theproper point,

so as to indent it into the hole a, the lever 0 moving around its pivot,and the lever O around the circular hub portion of the lever O, the backportion of both levers being made to touch the narrower sides of thepost. The

post I of the shoe passes loosely over the post F, attached to the frontof the button, and the plate G is slotted, as shown in Fig. 3, theconnecting-bar g, between the two slots, serving as a catch for thehooks c c, the plate G being stamped up, so as to form, with the plate Hof the shoe, a chamber, h, to receive the projecting ends of the hooks cc. The hooks c c are pressed toward each other by the spring E operatingto throw the pushers D D outward. The pushers D l) are attached bypassing the ends of the levers through a hole, (I, made in the pushers.The hooks c c are thus brought together over the bar 9 by the spring E,and

opened to release the shoe and separate the button by pressing upon theprojecting ends of the pushers, as usual.

We claim as our invention 1. In a separable button, the combination ofthe front portion of the button, with a hollow elongated fixed post andoppositely-acting hook-levers pivoted within the said fixed post, withthe hooks located at the outer end of the said post and thrown inopposite directions by means of spring-actuated pushers connected to'theinner ends of the said pivoted hook-levers, and arranged to move in adirection opposite to the movement of the connected hooks, substantiallyas described.

2. In a separable button having a hollow elongated fixed post attachedto the front portion of the button, the combination of the male andfemale hook-levers,with the said fixed post and spring-actuated pushers,substantially as described.

3. In aseparable button, the combination of the hollow elongated post I,with the plate H and the slotted plate G, provided with a catchbar, 9,and forming, with the plate H, a chamber, h, substantially as described.

OLIVER P. OOGGESHALL. AMOS W. (LARNOLD.

Witnesses:

J. J. SGHOLFIELD, W. H. J oven.

